Any dog can mock the expression, 'If dogs could only talk,' with minimal effort. Gesturing with 'full body language' is their art. With limitless finesse they can melt hearts, rock your boots with laughter or send you ricocheting down the sidewalk in utter terror from an upturned outer lip. We read the tip of their head, the telegraphic tap of their toes or any of three thousand well-honed stances, utterances , or occasional jaw snappings as communicates often more perceivable than those projected from our own spouse..

Their most honed and effective expression is when you walk away, or close the door, or in their eyes abandon them to go to work, get the mail or just seek privacy in the bathroom. Leaving them at a kennel or veterinarian's office will magnify this response to an extreme. The essence of this effect parallels the rate chocolate melts when exposed to a 450 degree oven at 2:30 on a scorching afternoon in mid August.

People bow to their powers. Just test the theory. Watch the number of people strolling with their pets, playing in parks or back yards, wiping the happy drool from the side windows of their cars or jammed towards the remote edge of a sofa while the contented 'mutt' sprawls across the prime spot savoring the prime space he is 'allowed.'

Watch too the haunting voice and eyes of the lonely 'pet' chained and most often forgotten, housed in a kennel, tethered from life, as it speaks its plight. Contained within its ballad may be the words, "What did your dog say to you today?"

 

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Where Your Extra Change Helps Give A Needy Pet A Chance

Add this label to a favorite jar or can. Drop your loose change inside. When you are ready, drop the contents off at our Coins For Critters collection points.

Questions: Contact Second Chance Animal Sanctuaries 570-724-7919

or email secondchanceas@yahoo.com Thank You!

Lost pets, hurt pets, pets or someone's pets in need, found pets, homeless animals, pets of a neighbor....the list of pets in immediate need of a chance is often disturbing. The COINS FOR CRITTERS Program combines the loose change from our pockets to create a COMPASSION FUND to assist these "emergencies" when the calls come to Second Chance. We use 100% of the accumulated funds to offer the strongest assistance possible,be it a visit to the veterinarian,or...

Step 1: Tape the label onto a can of your choice.

Step 2: Find a convenient spot in your home for the can.

Step 3: Drop loose change in the can.

Step 4: When you are ready, deposit the change via one of the following ways:

Visit us at local events (see list in this newsletter)

Contact us at 570-724-7919 for assistance

or leave the change at one of the following collection points:

Flossie's Beauty Shop in Wellsboro

Nature's Valley Natural Foods Store in Wellsboro

Full Of It Thrift Shop in Mansfield

 

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contact us at 724-4077

Donation Cans Located in: Nature's Valley Natural Food Store; Cornell's Farm Store; Tioga Office Products; Veterinary Medical Center, Mansfield; Wellsboro Small Animal Hospital; Full Of It Thrift Shop, Mansfield; Tioga School Employees Credit Union; Pit Stop Auto Sales; Pioneer Restaurant; Shear Reflections, Tioga

One evening the nighttime caregiver at a small sanctuary for privileged dogs was busily tending to her chores when the central light source flickered, dimmed then went out. Perplexed and alone the caregiver turned to some of man's best friends and asked them for assistance. Each, in turn replied in their own 'specialty' way.

GOLDEN RETRIEVER, "The sun is shining, the day is young, we've got our whole lives ahead of us, and you're inside worrying about a stupid burned-out bulb?"

BORDER COLLIE, "And then I'll replace any wiring that's not up to code."

DACHSHUND, "You know I can't reach that stupid lamp!"

ROTTWEILER, "Make me."

LAB, "Pleeeeze let me change the bulb. Huh? Can I?"

GERMAN SHEPHERD, "I'll change it as soon as I've led these people from the dark, checked the perimeter, and finish my patrol to make sure that no one has tried to take advantage of the situation."

TIBETAN TERRIER, "You can feed me while he's busy."

JACK RUSSELL TERRIER, "I'll just pop in and help while I'm busy bouncing off the walls and furniture."

POODLE, "I'll just blow in the border collie's ear and by the time he finishes rewiring the house, my nails will be dry."

COCKER SPANIEL, "Can't, I'll check to see if anyone pees on the carpet in the dark."

DOBERMAN, "While it's dark, I'm going to sleep on the couch."

BOXER, "I can still play with my squeaky toys in the dark......."

CHIHUAHUA, "Yo quiero Taco Bulb."

IRISH WOLFHOUND, "I've got this hangover......"

POINTER, "I see it, there it is, there it is, right there......"

GREYHOUND, "Who cares?"

AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD, "First I will put all of the light bulbs in a little circle.

OLD ENGLISH SHEEP DOG, "I'm sorry, but I don't see a light bulb."

BASSET HOUND, "ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz.z...z.zz.z.."

Frazzled, and still in the dark, a light did come on from within the caregiver. Stumbling through the dark the caregiver altered the sign above the kennel. From 'Cool Cats Have Staff' it now read, 'Cats May Have Staff, But Dogs Have Masters.'

The lights now shine at the sanctuary.

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When one of our members gave a fostered momma cat named Penelope a pill, the experience brought to memory a tale called 'HOW TO GIVE YOUR CAT A PILL IN TWENTY EASY STEPS'...and we just had to share it with you!

1 Sit on sofa. Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your elbow as though you were going to give a bottle to a baby. Talk softly to it.

2 With right hand, position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. (be patient) As cat opens mouth pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow. Drop pill into mouth. Let go of cat, noticing the direction it runs.

3 Pick the pill up off the floor and go get the cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat in left arm and repeat process. Sit on floor in kitchen, wrap arm around cat as before, drop pill in mouth. Let go of cat, noticing the direction it runs.

4 Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away. Scoot across floor to pick up pill, and go find the cat. Bring it back into the kitchen. Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for a count of ten. Drop pill into mouth.

5 Pry claws from back legs out of your arm. Go get the cat, pick up half-dissolved pill from floor and drop it into garbage can.

6 Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of closet. Call spouse from backyard. Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into mouth. Drop pill down ruler and rub cat's throat vigorously.

7 Retrieve cat from curtain rod, get another pill from foil wrap. Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep shattered Doulton figures from hearth and set to one side for gluing later.

8 Get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of drinking straw, force mouth open with pencil and blow down drinking straw.

9 Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans, drink glass of water to take taste away. Apply Band-Aid to spouse's forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap.

10 Retrieve cat from neighbor's shed. Get another pill. Place cat in cupboard and close door onto neck to leave head showing. Force mouth open with dessert spoon. Flick pill down throat with rubber band.

11 Fetch screwdriver from garage and put door back on hinges. Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetanus shot. Throw T-shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.

12 Call fire department to retrieve cat from tree across the road. Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take another pill from foil wrap.

13 Tie cat's front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table, find heavy duty pruning gloves from shed, force cat's mouth open with small spanner. Push pill into mouth followed by large piece of fillet steak. Hold head vertically and pour one cup of water down throat to wash pill down.

14 Get spouse to drive you to the emergency room, sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearm and removes pill remnants from right eye. Call at furniture shop on way home to order new table.

15 Get last pill from bottle. Go into bathroom and get a fluffy towel. Stay in the bathroom with the cat, and close the door.

16 Sit on bathroom floor, wrap towel around kitty, leaving only his head exposed. Cradle kitty in the crook of your arm, and pick up pill off of counter.

17 Retrieve cat from top of shower door (you didn't know that cats can jump 5 feet straight up in the air, did you?), and wrap towel around it a little tighter, making sure its paws can't come out this time. With fingers at either side of its jaw, pry it open and pop pill into mouth. Quickly close mouth (his, not yours).

18 Sit on floor with cat in your lap, stroking it under the chin and talking gently to it for at least a half hour, while the pill dissolves.

19 Unwrap towel, open bathroom door. Wash off scratches in warm soapy water, comb your hair, and go find something to occupy your time for 7-1/2 hours.

20 Arrange for Second Chance Animal Sanctuaries to get cat and call local pet shop to see if they have any hamsters.